F18: USB flash drives do not mount

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

I am a bit at a loss as to how to get USB flash drives to mount on F18.
It has been such a long tome since this has not worked from
off-the-shelf in Fedora or anything that I have perhaps forgotten what
to do (maybe I never knew):

Here is the output from tail -f /var/log/messages (as the USB is put
in):

Jan 21 10:44:54 kharkai kernel: [47423.454160] usb 1-3: new high-speed
USB device number 16 using ehci_hcd 
Jan 21 10:44:55 kharkai kernel: [47423.716770] usb 1-3: New USB device
found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6387 
Jan 21 10:44:55 kharkai kernel: [47423.716782] usb 1-3: New USB device
strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 
Jan 21 10:44:55 kharkai kernel: [47423.716790] usb 1-3: Product: Mass
Storage 
Jan 21 10:44:55 kharkai kernel: [47423.716797] usb 1-3: Manufacturer:
Generic 
Jan 21 10:44:55 kharkai kernel: [47423.716804] usb 1-3:
SerialNumber: C08A740E 
Jan 21 10:44:55 kharkai kernel: [47423.719521]
scsi13 : usb-storage 1-3:1.0 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel:
[47424.722207] scsi 13:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic  Flash Disk
8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.724178] sd
13:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.725511] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb]
1970176 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 GB/962 MiB) 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.726126] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Write
Protect is off Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.726627] sd
13:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.726637] sd 13:0:0:0:
[sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.729701] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] No
Caching mode page present 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.729713] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb]
Assuming drive cache: write through 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.771662]  sdb: sdb1 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.774132] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] No
Caching mode page present 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.774139] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb]
Assuming drive cache: write through 
Jan 21 10:44:56 kharkai kernel: [47424.774145] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb]
Attached SCSI removable disk




Nothing happens as far as pcmanfm goes, and I can't see where this
goes. I guess I could go in for a hardwired manual mount, but I wanted
to first see if there was some more general fix first.


df does yield the following entry:

tmpfs          tmpfs     990M  4.2M  985M   1% /run

but I can't seem to get to it. 


Any suggestions, please?

Best wishes,
Ranjan


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